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These costs were already inflated prior to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

do you realize how much esmark travels - to places requiring flight and rental car. way way more than PPE. the 18’s went so much this past season and usually to play low level teams. i don’t get it.

All in, I'd have trouble believing you could do a AAA team for less than $12k at younger ages and 15-17k for the older guys. 10 years ago every birthyear had 30-40 AAA level players split between 2 clubs. Now it's closer to 70-120 players split between 4-7 clubs. Think of all that extra cash being dumped into these teams. You'd think people would realize PAHL AA would actually be very competitive if you didn't skim all these players off the top. Everyone saves a boatload of money and could still play at the same level, just labeled with one less A.

Are you including travel? That makes a big difference. I could see 6-8 for all the fees etc without including the travel. Going to be substantially higher depending on game schedules.